From AllenAmet@aol.com Sat May 5 18:12:00 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f461Bx070060 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:11:59 -0700 Received: from imo-m10.mx.aol.com (imo-m10.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.165]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f461BxX28511 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 18:11:59 -0700 Received: from AllenAmet@aol.com by imo-m10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.10.) id d.2d.b3b6cfc (4358) for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 21:11:48 -0400 (EDT) From: AllenAmet@aol.com Message-ID: <2d.b3b6cfc.2825fed3@aol.com> Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 21:11:47 EDT Subject: Re: On Oedipus' anger (Re: Knox in Box) To: classics@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 64 In a message dated 01-05-05 21:01:14 EDT, you write: << Other than solving riddles (content unknown in the play), what does Oedipus know? Nothing. EJTh >> ************** Oedipus thinks he "knows" how to avoid his destiny (although I have seen different explanations for his abrupt leave-taking from Corinth). If the play intends an object lesson - one cannot avoid the inevitable - then Oedipus is us, no? His character is already shaped by his (unknown) experience, and his choices are illusory. allen koenigsberg .